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Today I learned that some scholars think the Book of Hebrews was written by a woman but early church fathers erased her name

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GAyx5 TIL The New York Times tech writer, David Pogue was given 1 of 4 iPhones to ever leave Apple [2007] and lost it in a taxicab
E1LY0 TIL that the destruction of Hiroshima was caused by only half a gram of matter being converted to energy: the weight of a butterfly
QZwM TIL: During World War 2 many Black and White soldiers had children with German women. Those children of Black and White soldiers that were raised in Germany showed no discernible IQ differences unlike in the United States where there is a wide gap between Black and White IQs.
oA97 TIL that because of a lucky genetic mutation happened in the 18th century, today 38 people in a small town in northern Italy don’t suffer from cholesterol artery-clogging, making them virtually immune to heart disease and strokes. They all smoke, they eat like hell, and they don’t care
4XWd5 TIL Even tho Saladin ruled a vast empire, encompassing all of the Levant, modern day Iraq, and parts of North Africa and Arabia, at the time of his death, he had no money left to pay for his funeral. He donated everything to the poor